My cat Myrtle has never flown coach. She doesn’t have the same complaint I have of airline workers who don’t seem to realize that “full” means full. For some reason they’ve created “completely full,” “extremely full,” “very full,” and, “full.” How did that change? Our industry is always grappling with change (as in alteration, not pennies and nickels), the latest being lenders having to shift their borrower’s expectations due to government paralysis. STRATMOR discusses this in its latest blog, “Home Financing Despite the Partial Shutdown .” Servicers and MBS investors are following regulators’ plea for financial institutions to work with borrowers affected by the government shutdown, along…(read more)